Hi, I’d like to know if there is a rule to know if the Rōmaji form of ﾗ should be translated to ra or la and the same for ru, ro etc. For example: One Piece: ルフィ in my country translated to Ruffy シーザークラウン in my country translated to Caesar Crown To Love-Ru: ララ in my coun…

When they’re in katakana, they’re usually foreign loanwords that are already spelt with either R or L (hence “Ceasar Crown”… unless it’s Ceasar Clown?). When you’re talking fictional characters, quite often these days the author will specify. When they don’t, the internet either decides by concensu…

If there was such a rule, it wouldn’t be a rule about the Japanese language.

I think rules depend on the person who created that specific romanisation system. It’s pretty anarchic in my opinion. Edit: Romaji is a difficult topic to discuss here.

[image] Belthazar: When you’re talking fictional characters, quite often these days the author will specify. When they don’t, the internet either decides by concensus or schisms into warring factions. This ^^ :slight_smile: If you look at Final Fantasy 7 there is エアリス, and I’m still not sure…

Almost all formal (all?) romaji schemes use only ra ri ru re ro. Any use of L is purely stylistic, like the Japanese actor リリー・フランキー who styles his name “Lily Franky” in romaji, but as Wikipedia points out, would normally be written as rirī furankī in romaji. Certainly whether it’s written with L or…

Well, I guess that too. But my point was that it’s not something universal to people who study Japanese, just speakers of particular languages transliterating from Japanese.

Japanese don’t generally distinguish between la and ra, it sounds the same to them.

[image] lamarozzo: Japanese don’t generally distinguish between la and ra, it sounds the same to them. Business idea: shoot a cheap film using unknown actors titled Ra Ra Rando and market it in Japan as starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.

I’ve been wondering the same thing! Great topic.

Rule for la and ra?

Japanese Language

MikkaFelipe May 26, 2018, 8:55pm 4

I believe you mean by that, that i put it into the wrong section of the forum?

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Rule for la and ra?

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